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Indiana Republicans have wonderful priorities.
Sounds like the proponents of the law are already corrupt
bought & paid.
We should never have legalized the casinos or sports books.
It seems as if some lawmakers would like a heads-up if a major investigation is pending and the State Commission needs more funding. The fact that it didn’t pass the House is a real issue.
two sides to every argument. Better one for the proponents of this one would have been it prevents the Gaming Commission from assessing fines and penalties just to increase their budget. This practice was rampant with prosecutors and law enforcement and the seizure of assets relating to drug sales.
If an executive commission or body, or a prosecutor or police force, generates funding from enforcing the laws, the money should go to the general fund, and not the office kitty. Let the entity go to the State Budget Committee or county equivalent for more funding.
So you mean to tell us the same legislators who sat on their hands when it comes to asset sales that benefited local police (which got their hands slapped with a Supreme Court case) suddenly found religion on the matter when it comes to casinos that just so happen to be donors to their legislative campaigns and just so happen to have gotten in trouble with illegal donations to multiple legislators and casino projects.
And that is just simply impossible that a legislator is going to lower the boom on enforcement of a Indiana’s gambling laws, then end up miraculously leaving the Legislature and coincidentally ending up with a cushy six figure job with a casino.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/12/20/get-your-house-in-order-lawmakers-admonish-gambling-regulation-agency-which-defends-processes/
I said nothing of the kind. I said it was better public policy, and the Supreme Court case you mention agreed.
There is no argument Indiana’s ethically-challenged politicians have been the beneficiaries of gambling interests, both in terms of political contributions and post-government jobs. The resolution of those issues lies in better conflict of interest and post-legislative employment restrictions, as are seen in many states, not in having fines and penalties paid to a quasi-policing entity. That would be the SC case all over, wouldn’t it?
But setting up a Gambling Czar at the Gaming Commission who is vested with the ability to generate substantial funds by questionable fines and penalties is not the best answer. Who or what would keep him or her from imposing fines, or refusing to do so, based on political considerations? From looking the other way when a mentor legislator calls and says to not impose big fines.
Well, based on the current situation, what’s happening is exactly your fear – because casino operators don’t like the laws being enforced against them, they’ve called in state legislators who have made the message quite clear to the regulators- stop going after casinos or we will shut you down.
The noise about where the money goes is just sleight of hand … and, as noted, a lovely way to let legislators shut down “too much” enforcement.
We will never get better cooling off or conflict of interest laws. looking the other way on an industry that ignores the law that tells them to leave alone people who have told the state of Indiana “don’t let me in a casino for my own good” is a terrible idea.